Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bend Her

Bend Her edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 13 Jun 2013 at 13:39:15 (UTC)

Original – Poster for an American burlesque on Ben Hur, c. 1900.

Reason: A rather nice poster showing a complicated staging of a very silly burlesque on Ben Hur. Could have wished for a bigger scan, but it's well over our size requirements
Articles in which this image appears: Burlesque, American burlesque, Victorian burlesque
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Theatre
Creator: Courier Company, Buffalo, N.Y.; restoration by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator --Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 13:39, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Of course! Awesome. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:28, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
EV Comment It's a nice image, but that is a strange development of the topic with the overall article and then American and Victorian. I suspect merging them and then discussing the nuances would be a more effective way to present the info for the reader. [Sometimes it makes sense to split a topic, but other times really hurts the reader...see this for instance with subspecies of animals when many sources not making the distinction...but Wiki has a bias for splitting and categorization as opposed to synthesis and compare/contrast.] Also, having Bend Her as the lead for the "combined" article seems a little off. I think the lead on the American article is more iconically burlesque.

The subject is a wide subject; parodies of pre-extant works were a particularly big genre of burlesque. As for the image you mention, I quite like it, but going with what's iconic to modern day risks reinforcing an inaccurate perception that that's all the genre was. It wasn't, and so I think it's good to challenge the stereotype early. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 21:02, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Also a pretty hilarious image. Cowtowner (talk) 05:04, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Interesting :) Brandmeister^talk 09:09, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Stunning, eye-catching, educational and fun, and the horse on skates is hilarious. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 03:53, 10 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:The High Rollers Extravaganza Co. - Bend Her - c.1900.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:03, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]